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When losing your soil means losing your livelihood (commentary)

Sophie Erfurth 3 May 2019

Changing energy use in rural Africa with power from solar, clean stoves…and women

David Klinges 2 May 2019
Western Chimpanzees at Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo by BigMikeSndTech, licensed under CC by 2.0

Western chimp numbers revised up to 53,000, but development threats loom

Ashoka Mukpo 1 May 2019

Meet the winners of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Apr 2019

The world lost a Belgium-size area of old growth rainforest in 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2019

U.S. companies implicated in illegal timber trade from West Africa

James Fair 18 Apr 2019

Liberia’s new land rights law hailed as victory, but critics say it’s not enough

Jennifer O’Mahony 22 Mar 2019

In Nigeria, hunters turn into guardians of the rarest gorilla on Earth

Linus Unah 4 Mar 2019

Norway divests from plantation companies linked to deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Mar 2019

Gorilla radio: Sending a conservation message in Nigeria

Linus Unah 6 Feb 2019
The forest of Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia’s community forestry becoming a front for deforestation: Report

Ashoka Mukpo 23 Jan 2019

An expanding frontier: Top 10 global palm oil stories of 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Dec 2018
Rose-ringed parakeets seized from the parrot trade in Senegal. Photo courtesy of Davide de Guz/World Parrot Trust

Deadly parrot virus found in native birds from Asia and Africa

Erin I. Garcia de Jesus 5 Dec 2018

Deforested, degraded land restoration a top priority for African leaders

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2018

The legal institutionalization of FSC certification in Gabon (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 31 Oct 2018

Africa’s slender-snouted crocodile is not one but two species

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018
A woodcarver makes a carving of a rhinoceros on the outskirts of Lunga Lunga, a town on the border between Kenya and Tanzania. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay

African wood industry: 10,000 micro-businesses need support for sustainable trade

Joseph Charpentier 22 Oct 2018
Dienaba Diedhiou, an oyster collector in her 70s, poses with her grandchildren. Image by Jennifer O’Mahony for Mongabay.

Women’s work in Senegalese conservation includes exorcising demons

Jennifer O’Mahony 19 Oct 2018

Is S&P Dow Jones greenwashing conflict palm oil? (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 16 Oct 2018
Bassirou Sambou, who heads the biodiversity monitoring section of Kawawana, stands in the ancient woodland surrounding his home. Image by Jennifer O’Mahony for Mongabay.

Watching the wildlife return: Q&A with a rural Senegalese river monitor

Jennifer O’Mahony 15 Oct 2018
A fisherman pulls in a barracuda at sunset on the waters of the Casamance River, accompanied by an apprentice. Image by Jennifer O’Mahony for Mongabay.

Senegal: After reviving fish and forests, Jola villages tackle new threats

Jennifer O’Mahony 10 Oct 2018

Why keep Africa’s dryland forests alive?

Sophie Mbugua 12 Sep 2018
Fresh oil palm fruit bunches. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Palm oil giant’s claim it can’t control Liberian subsidiary a ‘red herring,’ NGO says

Daniel Pye 12 Sep 2018

The crisis in the European tropical timber sector in Central Africa (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 1 Aug 2018
A western chimpanzee in Liberia. Image by Cameron Zohoori via Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0)

New report spotlights financiers of palm oil giant clearing Liberia’s forests

Daniel Pye 17 Jul 2018

Extractive industries threaten a million square kilometers of intact tropical forests around the globe

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2018

Online mapping tool tracks land-use changes down to the farm

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 12 Jul 2018

Farmer-managed natural regeneration: the fastest way to restore trees to degraded landscapes?

Cathy Watson 29 Jun 2018

Hunters are wiping out hornbills in Ghana’s forests

John Cannon 23 May 2018

Wildlife decimated by the surge in conflicts in the Sahara and the Sahel

Mongabay.com 9 May 2018

Half a ton of pangolin scales seized on the way to Asia from Benin

John Cannon 19 Apr 2018

Certified weaknesses: The RSPO’s Liberian fiasco (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 13 Apr 2018

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